Crooks & Liars: Republicans postpone Obama meeting to avoid another ass-kicking, and then lie about

[Amerigo Vespucci]

November 17, 2010 01:00 PM

Republicans postpone Obama meeting to avoid another ass-kicking, and then lie about it

By David Neiwert

http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/republicans-postpone-obama-meeting-a

According to Fox News, the canceled summit meeting between President Obama and Republican House leaders to discuss the extension of the Bush tax cuts was just a matter of conflicting schedules.

But according to El Hacko Supremo Glenn Thrush at Politico, it's actually about Republican hurt feelings because President Obama supposedly "crashed" a GOP House gathering in January:

The roots of the partisan standoff that led to the postponement of the bipartisan White House summit scheduled for Thursday date back to January, when President Barack Obama crashed a GOP meeting in Baltimore to deliver a humiliating rebuke of House Republicans.

Obama's last-minute decision to address the House GOP retreat - and the one-sided televised presidential lecture many Republicans decried as a political ambush - has left a lingering distrust of Obama invitations and a wariness about accommodating every scheduling request emanating from the West Wing, aides tell POLITICO.

"He has a ways to go to rebuild the trust," said a top Republican Hill staffer. "The Baltimore thing was unbelievable. There were who only knew Obama was coming when they saw Secret Service guys scouting out the place."

WTF? Are these guys kidding? Or are they just not even bothering to come up with halfway decent lies anymore?

Because not only did Obama kick their asses from Baltimore to Seattle in that meeting, but he did so because he was invited by Republicans who were eager to kick his and massively failed.

Josh Marshall hits this one out of the park: http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/republicans-postpone-obama-meeting-a

[notadmblnd]

1. Sounds to me like they're made because Obama stepped out of what they think his place should be.

You know, getting all uppity and all:sarcasm:

[Denzil_DC]

2. K&R n/t

[xultar]

3. I am really proud of C&L. !!!

[tridim]

4. I wonder if they're also afraid of what the teabaggers might say?

And what the President might say to them?